Analysis of the lyric of Angelus Silesius and the role of Christianity in the German Baroque

• Grant number: 11/05016-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2011
• End date: October 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Wilma Patricia Marzari Dinardo Maas
• Grantee: Darlan Xavier Nascimento
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In a first stage, this project intends to briefly describe the philosophical currents of thought of the 17th century in Europe and to make an historical contextualization about the role of the Catholic Church of that time in the formation of a literary thought. The second step of the project intends to verify the characteristics of the German Baroque, which happened in that period, understanding its existence reasons and noticing its influences. Lastly, we taper the corpus and want to find examples of those characteristics in the poetry of Angelus Silesius, analyzing his lyric.